Group 6 Flashcards
Admonish
Warn or reprimand someone firmly/ to scold mildly/ to remind of duty
Aesthetic
concerned with beauty
Affectation
Pretentious behaviour in order to please someone
Alleviate
Make suffering less severe; placate, pacify, attenuate, assuage
Analogous
Comparable in certain respects
Bolster
Support or strength
Chauvinistic
Displaying aggressive patriotism, displaying excessive support for their own cause, group or sex
Connoisseur
An expert judge in matters of taste
Dissemble
Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs
Dogged
Showing tenacity and grim persistence
Dupe
trick, a victim of deception
Empirical
based on observation rather than theory
Engender
cause or give rise to(a feeling, situation or behaviour)
Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy
Entitled
Give someone a legal right to
Pertinacious
Holding firmly to an opinion or a cause of action
Presumptuous
Failing to observe limits of what is appropriate/brazen
Probity
Having strong moral principles, honesty and decency
Proliferate
increase rapidly in number, multiply
Specious
Superficially plausible but actually wrong
Spurious
Something that seems to be genuine, but is false
Subjective
Influenced by personal feelings, tasted and opinions
Subvert
Undermine the power and authority of the system
Timorous
Lack of confidence, easily frightened
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns excessively complex
Tractable
Easy to control or influence, easy to deal with
Transient
Ephemeral, lasting for a very short time
Ubiquitous
Present, appearing or found everywhere, omnipresent
Underscore
Emphasize
Venal
Corrupt
Venerate
Regard with great respect, reverence
